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I heard the ampeg had some quality issues, now this is getting to be a real pain! I'm just looking for a tube amp that has a great clean loud tone w/ reverb for under 1000. 50 watts and up is fine. Why is it so hard to find a good clean amp these days!!!???

fender. fender. fender. fender. fender.

1 cant go wrong with the classics

particularly
fender vibrolux
65 deluxe

1 Fender make some clean as a whislte amps with cavernous reverb. I'm personally a fan of the 65 Deluxe.

only problem-the deluxe-22 watts, nowhere near loud enough for outdoor gigs. Vibrolux-too early a breakup for outdoor gigs because of no negative feedback loop, it also gets a nasty hiss.

I currently own a fender 63 blonde bandmaster. The plain reverbless fender sound is pleasing, but lugging around a vintage amp to gigs is not my idea of taking good care of it.

I'm looking for a loud, clean 50 watts and up, open back combo. Anybody tried the carvin MTS amps? 100 watts, loud cleans, great reverb? Somebody here at the forum had one.

i've tried all the fender amps at GC and my bandmaster tops them in pure cleans. If i was to buy a fender now, it'd be the twin, but it costs 1099! Other amps like traynors carvins and ampegs can get me slick tones similar to the twin at great savings.

I just want to know if you guys have played amps in the ballpark of those tones that cost less than 1000, i need it to be a 2x12 and loud.

Mesa Boogie Blue Angel 4x10.....very loud amp; the most beautiful reverb I've heard!Would you look at that, I happen to have one for sale!!!!

spend the extra hundred and buy the Deluxe. You won't be sorry you did

Pickup a used Twin Reverb...even a reissue. I have seen the reissues sell for $600.00-700.00! These are great amps! If you look hard you can even pickup a nice silverface Twin for a good price!


Originally Posted by PUCKBOY99Mesa Boogie Blue Angel 4x10.....very loud amp; the most beautiful reverb I've heard!Would you look at that, I happen to have one for sale!!!! you've got some sweet gear... that Matchless is heavy! is that a V you got there?

Just out of curiousity....

You play enough outdoor gigs to merit actually considering a Twin Reverb Reissue?

Fifty watts is just a sizable amount of air to be pushing in a club. The more I play the more my amps seem to be getting smaller and smaller.

Maybe you need something that'll do the best of both worlds. I know my Trace Elliot Velocette will a club alone by itself without a problem. But when plugged into a 4 x 12 it sounds like an amp 10 times it size. The smaller speaker acts as a bottle neck for dispersion of the 15 Class A watts.

The Trace Elliot amps became the Gibson Goldtone series BTW.

Traynor 50 watt Blue!

it's not that hard to find what you want ...just look more

and, yeah, most of the used Fender RI's will get you there

yeah, i guess ill simply grab the twin off ebay after a thourough test at GC. Heres the problem-

I play for a funk/jazz band. We play most of our gigs at these outdoor 'punk rock shows' where everyone has a marshall stack. It's not very likely to see a jazz band playing stuff right after a band just finished their set of power chord sloshing, but that's the only way we can get exposure here in miami for our age group.

So....I need something loud enough for outdoor stuff, but if i had it my way, I wouldn't play these outdoor punk rock gigs and try to get my band to sound good enough for a bar to overlook our ages and hire us(we're all 18). Meaning that 50 watts is probably a good compromise, but sadly, there's no fender offering in that power and price range.

I don't mean to whine, i just HATE buying used stuff then having to ebay it out, especially vintage gear. I bought my bandmaster and JBL's, now i have to sell the speakers, retire my bandmaster because i dont want to get it damaged, and buy another amp. All I want to do is buy a good sounding, extremely reliable clean amp and stop worrying about my gear, period. So the Twin it is!

50 watts is not a compromise. It's ideal, practical and just right

I just bought a Mesa F30. I think they can be had for about $1000. The clean channel is probably the most stellar thing about the amp. That's not to say that everything else isn't great as well.

sounds to me like you're approaching modeler needs....I wouldn't normally suggest a modeler as I'm a bit of a tube amp snob..but ya gotta go with what gets the job done, and that would do it, and you could always put it through a power amp and a full range cab for as many watts as you want! just a suggestion

Sounds like you need a Blue Angel 4x10 that's right up the road from you!!!!

38watts cranked amp; mic'd is pretty friggin' loud!!!!!!

hate to sound like a broken record, but the b-52 at 100 is a great amp for 700...hell, it's a great amp for twice that much =) and it's got class A, A/B and solid state recto options..reverb's great, and the clean channel is great too....